Page 195 - Editorial Comment

Defusing a crisis

SC intervenes in an unnecessary stand-off in Kolkata

Welfarism and bias

Income tax rebate less justified than farm income support

Implementation worries

PM-KISAN, pension for informal sector face hurdles

Back to Feb 28

Advancing the Budget by a month not working out

Unsustainable welfarism

India needs a strong bond market to check electoral populism

Behind the speech

Budget speeches conceal more than they reveal

Controlled hand-outs: Fiscal discipline maintained in an election year

It is hard to argue against hand-outs to the distressed, but one must not lose sight of the fact that the fiscal space for the hand-outs has been created partly by squeezing existing scheme' funding

Good news or bad?

Revised estimates suggest GDP grew at 8.2% during note ban

Real crisis

NSSO jobs data negates demographic dividend

India's data blues

Statistical Commission resignations point to a deeper problem

Margins under pressure

Q3 corporate results indicate expenses outpacing revenue

Interim Budget 2019: Follow the convention

Govt should stick to fiscal propriety in Budget

Endgame in Afghanistan

India should be pragmatic in the wake of US withdrawal

A resounding nod

Supreme Court endorses the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code

NPPA undermined

Govt decides to have bureaucracy set drug prices

Investigative overreach

Mr Jaitley is right to question CBI's adventurism

China's big slowdown

The engine of global growth for 30 years is slowing

Over the top demand

Mandating that OTT services carry all DD channels defies logic

Reform defence budgeting

Both allocations as well as expenditure flows need attention

The temptations of dynasty

Priyanka Gandhi's entry shows politics remains a family affair